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Rapid responses to disease events are important to minimize the impact of the outbreak. To insure that there is no delay in CDC’s response to requests for international outbreak assistance because funds may not be readily available, the GDD Operations Center provides immediate access of funding to CDC programs through a contingency fund. The contingency funds is of particular value when a CDC program because of fiscal constraints would not be able to deploy experts to the country or when there is large outbreak to which CDC must respond and for which funding will eventually be identified.

In 2013, the Outbreak Response Contingency Fund supported the majority of CDC’s responses to international outbreaks including the deployment of CDC experts to 15 countries to respond to 17 outbreaks.

Outbreak

Country

Chikungunya

Federated States of Micronesia

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

Uganda

Dengue

Angola

Dengue

Kenya

Dengue

Tanzania

H5N1

Cambodia

Legionellosis

Mexico

Meningitis

Ghana

Meningitis

Ethiopia

MERS-CoV

Jordan

MERS-CoV

Qatar

Monkeypox

Democratic Republic of Congo

Nodding Syndrome

Uganda

Novel Orthopoxvirus

Republic of Georgia

Plant Alkaloid Induced Liver Disease

Ethiopia

Rabies

Taiwan

Unexplained Severe Illness in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Panama

Map showing highlighted countries that Global Disease Detection Operations Center contingency fund supported the outbreak investigations between 2010-13. The investigations were led by CDC’s Center for Global Health, the National Center of Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and the National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases